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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Ben Okri

Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Inspirational Love Sympathy
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Dream Flower Strong
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Ocean People Stories
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

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